Tropical Cyclone Faida brought wind and rain to Madagascar on Monday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Faida was located at latitude 18.5\u00b0S and longitude 49.7\u00b0E which put the center about 35 miles (55 km) southeast of the Toamasina, Madagascar.\u00a0 Faida was moving toward the west at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/p>\n
Even though the center of Tropical Cyclone Faida was just off the east coast of Madagascar on Monday night, bands in the western side of of Faida’s circulation were already over land.\u00a0 Those bands brought strong winds and locally heavy rain to parts of northern and central Madagascar.<\/p>\n
The strongest winds and heaviest rain were in the western half of Tropical Cyclone Faida.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 70 miles (110 km) in the western side of Faida’s circulation.\u00a0 The winds in the eastern half of Tropical Cyclone Faida were blowing at less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Faida will move around the northern part of a high pressure system over the Southwest Indian Ocean and southern Africa.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Faida toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Faida will move across Madagascar during the next 36 hours.\u00a0 The center of Faida’s circulation will pass near Toamasina and Antananarivo.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Faida will continue to drop heavy rain over parts of northern and central Madagascar.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause floods in some locations.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Tropical Cyclone Vince intensified southwest of the Cocos Islands and Tropical Cyclone Taliah continued to spin northwest of Australia.<\/p>\n
At 4:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Vince was located at latitude 17.3\u00b0S and longitude 91.5\u00b0E which put the center about 465 miles (750 km) southwest of the Cocos Islands.\u00a0 Vince was moving toward the west-southwest at 17 m.p.h. (28 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 978 mb.<\/p>\n
At 4:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Taliah was located at latitude 15.5\u00b0S and longitude 112.4\u00b0E which put the center about 485 miles (780 km) north of Exmouth, Australia.\u00a0 Taliah was moving toward the west at 12 m.p.h. (19 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 105 m.p.h. (165 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 972 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Faida brought wind and rain to Madagascar on Monday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Faida was located at latitude 18.5\u00b0S and longitude 49.7\u00b0E which put the center about 35 miles (55 km) southeast of the Toamasina, Madagascar.\u00a0 Faida was moving toward the west at 10 m.p.h. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,48,2],"tags":[341,647,973,978,67,2462,3847,85,338,648,974,3843,939,3846,3842,3844,3845,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21944,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions\/21944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}